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An historic British ship is now benefitting from efficient and reliable sewage handling thanks to the installation of new equipment from NOV Mono. The new duty and standby Mono Mutrators installed on the sloop, HQS Wellington, replaced its original Mono equipment which had given good service since it was installed in the early 1950’s.

In 2013 a €9m environmental engineering programme involving more than doubling the total capacity of seven pumping stations in the Petit Camargue, France, was completed. The flood prevention strategy, which had started back in 2003, involved the pump engineering and construction resources of KSB SAS.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from JSC Shardarinskaya HPP, a subsidiary of the state-owned Kazakh utility company Samruk Energy, to upgrade the electromechanical equipment at the Shardarinskaya hydropower plant, which was originally commissioned in 1967.

Xylem played a key role in a recovery mission to stabilise a large cargo ship carrying 150,000 tons of coal that ran aground off the coast of South Africa.

HMS Group announceds that the Group has signed a Rub 5.7 billion (USD 173 million) contract to deliver technological integrated solution for a major Siberian gasfield.

The first Wanner T80100 diaphragm pump to be put in service has been placed on a location in NW Louisiana, signaling the completion of the laboratory phase of development for the new diaphragm surface pump.

Highly poisonous heavy oil, a waste product of petroleum refineries, is still blown through the funnels of tankers into the air without being filtered. To reduce the burden on the environment, especially near the coast, while being able to react better to price fluctuations, Qatar wants to arrange the future operation of its entire LNG fleet on a flexible basis.

Torishima Pump Mfg. Co., Ltd. has received orders for 2 units of hotwell pump for Germencik geothermal power plant unit No.2 from Gurmat Elektrik Uretim A.S., an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Turkey.

Sundyne recently won a contract to provide Ansimag sealless, non-metallic magnetic drive pumps to the United States Military for use in their mobile Explosive Destruction System (EDS) program at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

Since December 2011, water management services company Erftverband has been responsible for the underground water resources in the German municipality of Korschenbroich and Kaarst (the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district).